Mailorder Mysticism

"Mail-ordermysticism" may sound like a joke to the serious, orthodox, traditional, or academic "expert" in religion -- & to the professional gurus whose "Work" consists of personality-monopoly & psychological authoritarianism -- but the Moorish Orthodox Church takes it seriously. There's something magical about the mail -- voices from the Unseen -- *documents as amulets* -- and something very american, democratic & self-reliant -- mysterious urban folklore -- old ad's for AMORC in crumbling yellow magazines -- HooDoo catalogues, dreambooks -- ancient spirits-of-places intersecting with modern communications networks that are placeless, spooky, & abstract. And the mail itself now seems antique -- a lost modernity, 19th century, sepia, violet ink -- a fitting medium for the transmission of secrets.

It all adds up to a "New World" religion, a translation of "Wild(er)ness" into the strange lost margins of commodification and "communication" -- both a betrayal & an apotheosis (like all religion) -- a playground for the Trickster -- a mundus imaginalis of the postal system & the printing press & the poetics of Desire.

Literal belief in one or another of these mail-order revelations would destroy our ability to believe in all of them simultaneously, like a palimpsest of angelic alphabets, a field of magical "correspondance(s)", a conceptual transformation-space of mythic energies and mythopoesis. The *eros* of postal mysticism lies in the whole pattern it makes, rather than in one part or another, one "course" or another. Sometimes those who sneer the most ironically at this textual spiritism are secretly drawn by its imaginal sensuality, even while their rational brains reject it all as high weirdness & superstition. However, one can believe (or "believe") both/and, rather than either/or. One drifts in a world of reveries, and "rejoice, fellow creature! All is ours!" -- Or, at least: -- an opening.

All this can now be yours, as you "Send Away For A Split Second Of Eternity" by joining the MOORISH MAIL ORDER MYSTICISM movement.

Certain airwave preachers tell you to "put you hands on the radio!" to receive a blessing or healing. The modern media are by definition forces for alienation -- and yet -- they contain within them hidden & unplanned magical linkages which are Immediate -- or at least far more direct than reason would allow. No technology can leach itself clean of the residue of magic which lies at its source -- and communication tech is the most "spiritual" of them all. The mail is full of gnostic traces -- even of love. Why not initiation?